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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
1905: A Sports Odyssey, Adrienne Simpson
The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140296948 New Zealanders love sport. The truth of this frequently-heard comment is daily demonstrated by the amount of space our newspapers allocate to sporting activities. Success on the cricket pitch, putting…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, December 2000, Issue 46, Lloyd Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Experts in avoidance, Emma Neale
Nineteen Widows Under Ash Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473395X Wilkins’ new novel, set in the United States, begins as Evelyn Herbert undertakes a road journey to her Pacific Northwest hometown. She has left her husband, and…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, December 2000, Issue 46, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From the sin bin, Bernard Carpinter
The Cassino Legacy Michael Wall Penguin, $19.95, ISBN 0140288368 Cardinal Sins Michael Wall HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503619 Michael Wall wants to see his name on the airport bookshelves of the world. He is making serious and professional efforts to write,…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, December 2000, Edmund Bohan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Michael Riddell, Michael Wall, Penguin, Reed
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Out of the twilight, Harry Ricketts interviews Kate De Goldi
Interview Harry Ricketts (HR): Did books mean a lot to you as a child? Kate De Goldi (K De G): They were my whole life really. I was a remarkably sedentary child. My mother’s favourite description of me was…
Tagged with: December 2000, Harry Ricketts, Issue 46, Kate De Goldi
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
From a work in progress, Damien Wilkins
Finally she found the room. Truly they’d banished him and as she pulled up a chair beside the bed and took out the patient’s file from her folder, she had the question in her head, if this man is dangerous,…
Letters – Issue 46
Reviewing the reviewer I am writing in response to the review of my book The Ambush, which appeared in the August issue of your magazine. Laurence Jenkins accuses me of “the clumsy telling of a not-very-interesting story”. Let’s take a…
Hanging matter, Marion McLeod
The Curative Charlotte Randall Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140297537 This is an amazing and amazingly good novel. The second novel is supposed to be the hardest but any reader coming to this one “blind” would judge it to be the work…
Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, December 2000, Issue 46, Marion McLeod, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Hello to Berlin, Cilla McQueen
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